August 17, 2018
News and Links
Protocol
Latest core devs call. Lane’s notes.
[Casper] Vitalik Buterin’s 75 tweets on the history and current plans of Casper
[Casper] Latest Casper standup
[Casper] Censorship detectors via 99% fault tolerant consensus
[Casper] Casper FFG and light clients. Vitalik listed the major challenges of light client protocol design and compared with old Casper FFG, this post explored how to optimize the times on BLS verifications for beacon chain light clients.
[Eth 2.0] Eth2.0 Implementers call
[Eth 2.0] VDF explainer
[Plasma] OmiseGO’s comprehensive Plasma update (with notes from last Plasma call)
[Plasma] Challenge Bond Pricing Concerns
[Plasma] Batch auctions on Plasma
[Plasma] Plasma bridge between chains
[STARKs] BarryWhiteHat: babyjubjub ecc
[State channels] Channels Can Enforce Contracts Beyond Intermediary Lockup Time
Stuff for developers
List of opcodes and gas prices. Kelvin Fichter adopted Danny Ryan’s list
eth-mutants: mutation testing tool from Federico Bond
Cryptofin’s array utilities library for Solidity
Austin Griffith on his Clevis and Dapparatus dapp dev tools
Runtime Verification: Formal verification of ERC20 tokens
Loredana’s new video tour of Pipeline visual IDE. Github code
New and comprehensive Infura documentation
A list of tools to get data out of the Ethereum chain
Getting deep into the EVM. Reminds me of Howard Yeah’s EVM series.
Zeppelin: deconstructing a Solidity contract, part 1 and part 2
Releases
Trinity third major alpha release - faster sync
Ecosystem
Maker and Wyre announce compliant fiat <> Dai onramp in 30+ countries, so now it will be easy to acquire the best store of value in crypto. An AMA with Maker and Wyre
ETH India recap from Lendroid. Check out the EthIndia submissions, lots of ambitious projects as well as devs new to Solidity. ENS Hackathon recap
ECF and EthPrize team up to fund EthWorks to implement Avsa’s universal logins
Luke Duncan: Harberger taxes for a middle ground between copyleft and permissive licenses
CryptoKitties filed for a Nifty trademark, which is messed up. Perhaps this means NFTY will win out in the nifty vs nfty nomenclature wars.
Governance and Standards
Harbour <> Aragon bridge for Harbour voting in Aragon orgs.
ERC1329: Inalienable Reputation Token
ERC1319: Smart Contract Package Registry Interface
ERC1328: WalletConnect Standard URI Format
ERC1327: Extendable Atomic Swaps
Project Updates
Brave plans to release an in-browser ETH wallet running a geth light client. Also, they’ll add Reddit and Twitter tipping.
Toshi rebrands as Coinbase Wallet
Columbia Journalism Review profiles Civil
Aragon Q2 dev update
0x monthly dev update
100 pages on local electricity market regulations to guide Grid+ domestic expansion
Gnosis on getting to 100% decentralized exchanges
Augur hit 1000 markets
Ocean Protocol v0.1 testnet release
Loom Network’s Zombie Battleground is in private alpha
Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks
Howard Wu talks snarks and libsnark on Zero Knowledge
Joseph Lubin 11 min BloombergTV interview
Cheddar’s 5 min profile of ConsenSys
Matt Condon’s intro to blockchain talk
Podcast interview of EEA Executive Director Ron Resnick
Ryan Selkis on Epicenter
Origin Protocol’s Stan James on Hashing It Out
Vitalik’s transaction fee economics talk from TechCrunchZug
30 mins of Brian Armstrong with Emily Chang
General
ZCash 2.0 released, should activate Oct 28 on 2 year anniversary
Dan Boneh’s Cryptography II Coursera class starting in September
Fascinating story of Indian politicians and Bitconnect. Ignore the fake news title.
Foreshadow: “how speculative execution can be exploited for reading the contents of SGX-protected memory as well as extracting the machine’s private attestation key”
Dates of Note
Upcoming dates of note:
August 19 - deadline to submit Devcon4 talk/workshop/discussion
August 22 - Maker DAO ‘Foundation Proposal’ vote
August 24-26 - Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)
September 6 - Security unconference (Berlin)
September 7-9 - ETHBerlin hackathon
September 7-9 - WyoHackathon (Wyoming)
September 8 - Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)
September 21-23 — EthAtlanta
Oct 5-7 - TruffleCon in Portland
Oct 5-7 - ETHSanFrancisco hackathon
Oct 11 - Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
Oct 22-24 - Web3Summit (Berlin)
Oct 26-28 - Status hackathon (Prague)
Oct 28-30 - Ethereum Magicians Council of Prague
Oct 29 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)
Oct 30 - Nov 2 - Devcon4 (Prague)
Nov 2 - MetaMask to stop injecting web3
Dec 7-9 - dGov distributed governance conf (Athens)
December - ETHSingapore hackathon
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